Add number of days to a date

Question

I want to add number of days to current date: I am using following code:

$i=30;
echo $date = strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($date)) . " +".$i."days");

But instead of getting proper date i am getting this: 2592000

Please suggest.

Answer 1

This should be

echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("+30 days"));

strtotime

expects to be given a string containing a US English date format and will try to parse that format into a Unix timestamp (the number of seconds since January 1 1970 00:00:00 UTC), relative to the timestamp given in now, or the current time if now is not supplied.

while date

Returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given integer timestamp or the current time if no timestamp is given.

See the manual pages for

• http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
• http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

and their function signatures.